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THE CENTRE REPORTER.
THURSDAY, REPTEV BER 18, 1917
Thirty-five Years Ago.
September 28, 1832. —1IL is said that
a New York psrty has pegotiated for
the Peter Hoffer farm, on Nittany
mountain, with a view of putting up
a large hotel for a summer resort,
The price to be paid for the farm ie
$10,000,
Pienics have been very numerous
hereabouts this summer, a few almost
avery week, all passing oft pleasantly
and affording epjoyment to the par-
ticipante,
One night last week thieves broke
into the store of Jacob Strohm, at
Centre Hill, and were disturbed by a
light struck by Mre, Strohm in her
bedroom in their residence close by,
ghe having occasion to get up. The
thieves left before getting any booty.
John Hogar, of Gregg, while work-
ing on the house of P. 8, Dale, at
Bpring Mills, on the 19:b, accidental-
ly Yell from the tuilding and broke
his shoulder,
David Bolt, of Pleasant Uap, aged
thirty-three years, was found dead
in bed on the mo.uing of the 18.b, his
death being due to erilepsay.
Theainthenpual picnic of the Pals
rons of Husbandry was held on the
old pienicground, on top of the moun~
tain, near Centre Hall, on Thursday,
Sept. 21. At high meridiap, tbe
crowd, without sny exaggeration,
numbered close to 6000, The followy
ing list of officers was announced 3
WwW, F. Rearick, Geo. W. Cawmpbel’,
William Dale, John Alxander, Jobn
Hunter, I. C Resrick: secretaries,
W. A, Kerr and George Taylor.
Bands were present from Farmers
Mille, Pive Hall, and Lemont, Ex-
Governor Cartin spoke for nearly an
hour on the propriety of the farmers
organizing in behalf of their intereate,
BOALSBURG.
Miss Annie Lobr is epending som:
time with relatives in Centre Hall,
Rev. and Mre. Ritzmap, of Mune
Valley, visited Mr, and Mrs, Job
Keilir from Friday until Batu:day,
Mre. Jemes Jacobs, of Wilnalvgton,
Delaware, spent the wéek end at the
Mre, E, E. Brown home,
#, E. Weber and sister, Miss Annie,
spent Wednesday of last week at th
J. H, Weber home in Centre Hall,
Miss Elizabeth Gettig, of Braddock,
is visiting her sletar, Mrs, Harry I+b-
ler,
Mr, and Mre. Charles Fisher and
gop, after ependiog the summe:
months here returned to their bome in
Danville on Thursday,
Mire, M. A. B, Boal, Mra. Wm. Go-
heen and Misses Cathryn and Appa
Dale attended a W. C. T. U. meeting
at Unionville last Wednesday.
Miss Annie Lohr lost a cresent
shape pin set with an amethyst stone,
on Bunday between the Lutheran
church and the 3. E. Weber home,
Miss Lohr would appreciate it very
much if anyone finding it would re
turn the same to her,
The Bosalsburg schools opened on
Monday with Miss Margaretta Goheen
tescher of the High School; Mise
Ruth Bmith, of Centre Hall, teacher
of the eighth grade ; Miss Rosalie Me.
Cormick, of Hublersburg, teacher of
the Grammar room, snd Miss Margs~
ret Bingaman, of Beavertown, teacher
of the Primary room.
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Aaronsburg,
Potato raising is the go.
ted tubers are being found.
Mrs, B, F. Heflley is visiting friends
in and around Bellefonte,
Herbert Hosterman, of Buflalo,
New York, visited his mother in thie
place for a short time,
Mre, Victor Btover and baby return-
to their home in Akror, Ohio, last
week,
Mr, and Mre, John Hosterman, of
Millheim, spent Bunday at the Jobn
Haines homé,
Mr, and Mre, George Beaver and
baby, of Youngstown, Ohio, are vis.
itors at the George Stover home,
Mrs, Leo Haines, of Faunbury,; jis
visiting her parente, Mr. and Mrs,
Harvey Crouse,
Mre, Jane BHylvis entertained at
Fundsy dioner Mr. Mechtly, from
Altoons, and Miss Brawver, of Mill
heim,
Many rot-
William Bohr, who holds 8 goed |
position in Y.uoget.wr, Onio, ia a
welcome gues! of hia cousine, Mr, aid’
Mre, A, =, iover,
Mr. nid Mre, Janes Miller, dsnghe
ter, snd Mre, Lucy Russel, all of
Lewi burg, were entertaiped fora doy
at the William: Gulcewite home,
Henry Mingle, son of E. G. Ming's,
of Asronsburg, and Mise Ruby Bore
ell, of Akron, Ohio, were united in
merrisge at that pisce, Friday, Auy~
uit 81st, The groom is employed in
the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co, in
Akron,
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Ocn're Conv ilan Dies bu West, :
Isspe P. Betz, born in Centre
county, November 80 1851, died at hia
howe nesr Madison, Bouth Dakotas,
Aug, 21st, He went west with his
parents in 1873.
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The primary election will be held
Wednesday, September 19:h,
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WHEN FATHER TELLS A JOKE
Mother Sees Nothing Funny in It and
Daughter's Glance Is Expressive
of Her Pity.
primitive sense of humor classifies as
“the funniest thing he had ever heard”
he hurries home to bear the glad tid-
ings to his wife. Father produces hls
great discovery, but mother's counte-
nance remains untroubled by so much
as 1 smile, observes the New York Eve
ning Sun. Nine wives out of ten will
gaze blankly into that interesting
emptiness to which woman's
are continually traveling over her hus-
band's shoulder, The tenth and cruel-
est creature will wither her spouse
with a penetrating stare which regls-
ters: “I see nothing—absolutely noth-
ing—funny in that.”
Disgusted and baflled, the husband
tells the same joke to his daughter,
Her only Indication of amusement
is a pitying uplift of the eyebrows
and a subsequent absorption in her
knitting.
With his finger on the last unbroken
string of hope father approaches his
nearest masculine relative, At last sues
cess 1s hig, for his son or his son-in-law
or his uncle roars, applauds and slaps
him on the back. Father bows to lmn-
aginary audiences and compliments his
fellow man on his perspicacity and his
mor. He pities “those women—those
poor defective women,”
THAT EXTRA TEN MINUTES
It 1s Good Business to Be Willing to
Give a Little Time Over and
Above Hours Paid For.
She had been promoted three times
within the year, and when I asked her
what her secret was she laughed and
sald: °
“Oh, I guess it's just that extra ten
minutes.”
I laughed, too, for I knew what she
meant. It was her mother's favorite
bit of preachment.
for it, my dear. ut never hesitate
to give an extra ten minutes.”
It is good business to sell your time
~-which means your brains and your
work for all you can get for them.
3ut it 1s also good business to be will-
the hours you are paid for, when your
work requires it.
and ends for next morning. It wil
on the dot,
to your employer thas you care for
your work; that you'd rather do it
well. That you prefer to sacrifice a
little for the sake of excellence.
usually
nating employer, Your ex-
utes may prove to be your
t.—Exchange.
The successful employer is
the discrimi
tra ten
best inves
The Thoughts of Worldly Men.
The thought of worldly men are for-
ever regulated by a moral law of grav
itation, which, like the physical
holds them to earth, The bright
[ and the silent wonders of
t appeal to their minds in
in sun,
in the stars, for
are Ke some wise
one,
own
no signs the
their reading. They
men who, learning to know each plane
y its Latin name, have quite forgotten
uch small heavenly constellations as
*harity, Forbearance, Universal Love
and Mercy, although they shine by
1 t*and. day brightly that the
lind may see them; and who, looking
upward at the spangled sky, see noth-
ing there but the reflection of their
own great wisdom and book learning.
~—{harles Dickens,
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or in the
moon
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Where France Excels. -
The French are past masters In the
art of draping fabrics. A Parisienne
has truthfully said that French taste is
distinctly feminine and as clear as the
Gallic language itself. It possesses the
genius of curves, the secret of what Is
graceful and the intuition of what
brings about harmony. These char
acteristics are all to be found in French
art, French Industries and French
creations,
It is in France that we find the
work of the most skillful hands, the
most artistic Jewelry, the richest
clothes and the most beautiful hats.
In foreign commtries the idea of ugll-
ness or bad taste Is never associated
with the woman of France,
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Important Discovery.
Of all liquids, scientists have found
that mercury has the greatest spe
cific gravity ; but anotier has recently
been discovered which is also so heavy
that stones of all kinds—granite, lime-
stone, quartz, etc~float in It, It is
stoporate. Its specific gravity Is 8.3,
whereas that of ordinary rocks does
not exceed 2.7, Only a few precious
than that of this liquid, for which rea-
son It Is proposed to employ it for the
separation of such stones from masses
of broken rocks,
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: Woofl Woofl
Gladys—Maribel fears that if her
four suitors meet they'll fight,
Lucllie~Do they all love her so des-
perately?
Gladys—'"Tisn't that. Her school
sweetheart Is Jack Shepard;
‘Bjork, the titled foreigner, Is a great)
Dane; Chauncey Bright is a diamond
setter, and Captain March a West
Pointer~Town Toples, :
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Centre Reporter, $1.60 a year.
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‘HE DIDN'T GET THE CIGAR
| Mr. Brown's Neighbor Thought He
Was Doing Him a Little Kindness,
but Found He Was Mistaken,
My suburban neighbor, Mr. Brown, is
wonvalescing from a four months’ ili«
rniess,. Just now, he is a very handy,
man about home and splendid as an
errand and delivery boy, says a writer
in the Milwaukee Wisconsin, Last Sat-
urday, his wife sent him into town to
get a case of strawberries. The re-
turning interurban car was very crowd-
ed and Mr. Brown put down his case
of precious berries at the rear of the
car. When he neared the homeward
station, he started back for his burden
and found it well covered by someone's
big suitcase, As he pulled this out of
the way, a neighbor greeted him with
these words:
“Well, Brown, you have a big load
today.”
Thinking he meant the berries, he
answered, “Yes :” shouldered his case
and started off the car and up the
homeward road. His neighbor picked
up the heavy saitease and followed
him. Three blocks up the road and
four more, through the woods walked
the two neighbors, each with his heavy
lond. At last they reached the ter-
race leading up to Mr. Brown's house,
The neighbor put the suitcase up on
the walk and sald with a tone of re-
lef:
“Well, I suppose, I get a cigar for
this?”
“For what,” asked Mr. Brown.
“Why, Isn't this ‘your _eultcase?”
‘gasped the neighbor,
A neighborly kindness
astray.
TRAVELING STONES ARE ODD
Cause for Their Conduct Found
Fact That They Are Composed
of Magnetic Iron Ore.
had gone
in
In Nevada there found “traveling
from the size of a pea to six
*. When dis
i a level
| within two or three feet of one another,
immediately be
ward a8 common center and there
huddled clutch fof eggs In a
nest,
A single si«
tan
ing released at once started with won-
swhat comical celerity
to join its fellows,
These
i region
are
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glones
$vlbiry bong
surface
win a floor or other
they win to travel to-
le
like an
removed to a dis
and a half feet, upon be
ie,
ee of three
derful and sb
found in a
vel and
bare rock. Seattered
are
queer stones
is comparatively le
little more than
over this barren region are little basins
from a few feet to a rod or two in di-
in the bottom of these
ones are found.
strange conduct of
$8 to be found
: naterial of which they are com-
posed, whit
or magnetic
meter, and it is
hat the rolling st
The cause of the
stones Is doubt
‘h appears to be lodestone
from” ore.
Goldsmith First Humanitarian.
Goldsm “ perhaps the only
writer of his day.” it has been said,
“who thoroughly understood the social
f the Con nt. Nor was
f English society;
' has often been
a in {illustration of
ige which has gradually sub-
ited large for the small
ngs of a numerous yeomanry.,” In
of world-widefiess he
tands nlone among his contemporaries,
and this quality is reflected in his es-
He is large-hearted, because he
had had a large acquaintance with
mankind. He is the first of humani-
tarians, using that word to indicate an
interest In mankind as a whole, He is,
what he described his mythical philoso-
pher to be, a “Citizen of the World."
William J. Dawson.
ith was
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joted by economist
char
estates
quality
says,
The Prose Epic.
No lHterary species has had a more
unexpected and a more unprecedented
prosperity than the novel In prose,
which in the nineteenth century be
came the most popular of forms, es-
sayed by many a writer who pos-
gessed only a small share of the gift
of story-telling. The novel is almost
the only one of the literary species
that the Greeks of the Golden Age
did not develop and carry to a perfec
tion which is the despair of all later
men of letters, They seem to have
cared little for prose fiction; and
when they had a story to tell they set
it forth in verse, inspired by the muse
of epic poetry. Today that forsaken
maiden can find work fit for her hands
only by laying aside her singing robes
dnd condescending to bare prose
Brander Matthews,
Suppose This Happens!
“Well, mother,” sald a workingman
to his wife, as he retgned from the
park, where he had been hobnobbing
with his fellow strikers, “let's have
| dinner.”
“No dinner today, old man,” she re-
plied,
“No dinner! What's up?
“I've struck for eight hours’ rk
and two meals a day. So has Mrs.
Johnson, so has Mrs, Spring. In fact,
we've had a meeting, and we have
come to the conclusion that sixteen
{ hours a day Is too hard on women
when big, strong men can only stand
eight hours.”
Explained.
First Lady~1 saw your husband
I noticed that he removed his hat while
speaking to you. I admired him for
that. Very few men do that. .
Second Lady--1 remember. I told
him in the morning to have his hair
cut, and he was showing me that he
had obeyed.
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“Pride of Penn's Valley’” Seed Wheat
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Communication
Army
A bird's-eye view of the country today would
show a mighty panorama of military and indus-
trial activities. ’
Radiating from the National Capitol and from the army
and navy centers throughout the land would appear the
thousands of telephone lines by which all these vast
enterprises are directed and co-ordinated-—a veritable
maze of wires linking together the camps, yards, forti-
fications, plants and offices, and swarmi with line
men, cablemen and installers, busy i Sam's
existink and ever-increasing demands for telephone
service.
All this is but a part of the vast work which
System is doing. The conservation of bins He Bat
Will be reduired yr keep ace With the constantly in.
g demands for serv rom verniment
and private sources, Ge
Join ue in this patriotic service, by remembering that
the more rT are to make only telephony calls
that are necessary and to confine. your as much as
possible, to the less hours th better
we can meet the needs of the Ne s day, the
hone Company” of Pennsylvania
W. 8. Mallalieu, Local Manager
Bellefonte, Pa.
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